Profiles | Jaimy Fischer

Senior Research Associate

Jaimy Fischer (Métis Nation, she/they) has interdisciplinary training in health sciences and geography, with expertise in GIScience, healthy cities, urban transportation and mobility, and community-engaged research. Within all these areas, she works to centre principles of equity and inclusion. As a mixed settler and Michif (Red River Métis) person and researcher, Jaimy has a strong passion for social justice and equitable mobility, bridging knowledges, and for decolonizing and Indigenizing practices within institutions and disciplines such as planning, education, and GIScience. Jaimy has extensive experience conducting and teaching GIS & sociospatial equity analyses, particularly in the context of urban planning and intervention research. Their PhD research investigated equity in spatial data and interventions aimed at supporting bicycling for transport, and current research focuses on transport reconciliation, equity in spatial accessibility to daily needs, and urban trails as pathways for Indigenous health and inclusion.